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Frank holds a Master degree in Business Administration, a Bachelor degree in Economics, is a certified Economic Manager, as well as Chinese-English-Chinese translator. For more than ten years, Frank has been working for business, trade and economic departments of Bao’an District. During this time, he was sent to work for Shenzhen Municipality European Representative Office in Nuremberg, Germany in 2007 and also in 2011 for the 26th Universiade. Frank has been running Theme Mixer as a platform for Bao’an District since its conception in 2014. Currently, Frank is working together with both domestic and foreign partners to help bridge the gap between foreigners and local Chinese society, as well as improvement of national treatment of foreigners.

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Andrea Grassi holds a PhD degree of Industrial Mechanical System Engineering from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Faculty of Engineering Sciences in Italy. Prof. Dr. Grassi is currently a teaching Professor of Automation at the same University and he teaches machine shop courses, advanced design and manufacturing systems and management, as well as being in curriculum Committee.

His research activities are primarily composed of inherent manufacturing systems in all its aspects (production and logistics). This includes a solution that is a combination of heuristic algorithm of development, performance and development assessment, design of equipment and facilities, logistics and maintenance management analysis model, optimization of industrial production process and simulation model of development. His research activities are focused on tools that use mathematical and statistical analysis, stochastic modelling, differential calculus, artificial intelligence techniques, such as algorithms and multiple attribute decision making method. The results of his research has been published in international journals, as well as being published in national and international conferences.

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Mr. Giorgi is an Expert in automated production and has been in this industry since 1985. He studied in Ancona’s Polytechnic University in Mechatronic Department, and in Digital University in Milan where he got the degree as Software Engineer. Mr. Giorgi is a former IBM® software engineer and GE Fanuc Automation, Digital Electronics, and is certified by Allen Bradley®, Siemens®, Telemecanique®, Scada and Oracle® since 1990.
Mr. Giorgi was working with National Instruments Ltd. American Company as LabView/LabWindows CVi software engineer for plants management projects.

He was the Technical Director of LAM® one of the biggest Automation lines suppliers in Automotive field together with COMAU® in Italy. He, on 1993, has published articles on the most important Italian magazine in Automation field such as: the first touch-screen technology equipment used for manage wood working machines in the World. Mr. Giorgi’s projects include companies like Fiat, Ferrari, Magneti Marelli, Lombardini engines and has been a Plant Project Director of Ariston and Guzzini, which involved automatic car production lines, automatic warehouse systems, home appliances fully automatic production lines, system integrator in PLC and Host Computers, Fuzzy Logic and AI System Integrator.

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Michael Michelini holds a Masters of Science in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He worked at Deutsche Bank on Wall Street for close to 5 years before moving to China and building an e-commerce business from 2007 to now. Currently the host of Global From Asia podcast, he is based on the border of Shenzhen and Hong Kong and enjoys sharing news and insights about business in Asia to the rest of the world. Global From Asia is the main organiser of Cross Border Summit, an exclusive event for export and import to China, taking place on 21 and 22nd of April 2017 in Shenzhen.